Accession Number:

ADA052880

Title:

The Occurrence of Fingerprint Characteristics as a Two-Dimensional Process,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ILLINOIS UNIV AT CHICAGO CIRCLE DEPT OF MATHEMATICS

Personal Author(s):

• Sclove,Stanley L.

Report Date:

1978-02-15

Pagination or Media Count:

27.0

Abstract:

The model for occurrence of fingerprint characteristics in terms of multinomial trials on a grid of cells is extended to consider dependence between cells. The occurrence of the characteristics is modelled as a two-dimensional Markov process. The relationship with infinitely divisible random vectors is indicated. Author

Descriptors:

• *IDENTIFICATION
• *FINGERPRINTS
• TWO DIMENSIONAL
• MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
• PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• PATTERNS
• MARKOV PROCESSES
• CRIMINOLOGY

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE